If a chapter is below total, they will be eligible for informal recruitment. For more information on informal recruitment please contact the Director of Informal Recruitment, Lauren Kurtzer. Get your student group news and event information and manage your group memberships. AOPI and GPHI are also doing informal recruitment. FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM @heatherj227 Hey lovely babes, Today I will be sharing with you my experience rushing informally and formally. By: Strange Last Post: 23 minutes ago. about; officers During Recruitment, you will be looking for a group of women with whom you best identify. honest description of sororities By: be kind! You can learn more about these chapters on their websites. Historically, about 10 women are unfortunately left without an invitation to membership. All recruitment rules have been established to help sorority women and PNMs uphold the recruitment system. Informal recruitment is a more intimate and casual recruitment process for our Panhellenic sororities. First-semester freshmen are ineligible. Formal recruitment is run through IFC and allows potential new members (PNMs) to meet members from all 31 fraternities in the fall. If you’re interested in sorority membership,  and a chapter invites you to a COB event, you should attend. If you have further questions, please visit Panhellenic Formal Recruitment. Informal Recruitment, also known as Continuous Open Bidding (COB), is a process that sororities engage in outside of the the primary (formal) recruitment period. Any recommendations that come to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life will be discarded. Welcome to the CU Panhellenic Recruitment Blog! Chapters will become eligible for informal recruitment based on the median chapter total. Informal recruitment can happen at any time and requires the PNM to contact the fraternities directly about their individual recruitment processes. If you missed out on formal recruitment, this is a great way to try and find a sorority for you at Miami University. Last Post: 1 hour ago. The Columbia Panhellenic Council holds Formal Membership Recruitment in the spring semester each year. There’s so much that goes into each one! If you’re interested in a specific chapter. In addition, some chapters continue to hold informal recruitment events throughout the year. The Columbia University Panhellenic Council governs the 4 Panhellenic sororities on campus - Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Sigma Delta Tau. “If you just want to approach two or three people that you already know, you can do that as well. The lowest GPA requirement to join a women’s fraternity at Columbia University is 2.50. Not all chapters hold informal recruitment every year; whether a chapter holds informal recruitment is dependent on a number of factors.

Information regarding Fall 2011 Informal Recruitment will be posted at the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester. It tends to be more casual and unstructured than primary recruitment. It tends to be more casual and unstructured than primary recruitment and it can be difficult to identify which sororities are participating since not all can participate. Panhellenic assists in establishing guidelines for membership recruitment, service opportunities, and social activities for NPC sorority members. This blog will contain all important Recruitment-related information, including registration deadlines and party times. Which is for you? The Panhellenic Association is the self-governing student organization that provides guidelines and support to its member sororites. Formal recruitment, like its title, is more formal and structured. We expect our student organizations to do the same. 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